{"id":15506,"date":"2014-04-03T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=15506"},"modified":"2014-04-08T08:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T14:53:41","slug":"penalty-increase-for-animal-neglect-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=15506","title":{"rendered":"Penalty increased for animal neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill April 3 increasing the penalty for individuals convicted of neglecting animals.<\/p>\n<p>LB674, introduced by Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers, enables judges to impose the same animal ownership restrictions for cruel neglect of animals as can be imposed for the cruel mistreatment of animals.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, cruel mistreatment of an animal is a Class I misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year imprisonment, a $1,000 fine or both. The court has the option to order that a person not own, possess or reside with an animal for up to five years.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, cruel neglect of an animal also is a Class I misdemeanor, with the offender subject to the same animal ownership restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 48-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill April 3 increasing the penalty for individuals convicted of neglecting animals. LB674, introduced by Omaha Sen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-15506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-ernie-chambers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15516,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506\/revisions\/15516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}